32, Lower Brook Street is a Grade II listed building in the Ipswich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1972. A C18 House. 2 related planning applications.

32, Lower Brook Street

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ipswich
Constituency
Ipswich MP: Jack Abbott (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1972
Type
House
Address
32, Lower Brook Street, IP4 1AL
OS grid reference
TM 164 441
Coordinates
52.05372, 1.1555
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century building on the west side of Lower Brook Street. The front of the building is brick, now painted, and has a plinth. It is two storeys high with an attic, and the front elevation is divided into five bays, arranged as a group of two, one, and then two bays. It has double-hung sash windows in flush cased frames. The windows on the first storey have glazing bars, while the ground-floor windows do not. A raised stucco band separates the two storeys. The central entrance is marked by an 8-panel door with glazed upper panels, set within a good quality wooden doorcase featuring fluted pilasters, a triglyph frieze, and a cornice. The roof is tiled, with a wooden cornice embellished with modillions, and there are three flat-headed dormers. Nos 30A and 32, together with Nos 37 and 39, form a visually cohesive group.

Local climate

32, Lower Brook Street sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2020
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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